UNITED STATES v. SCHIFFER

No. 15886.

351 F.2d 91 (1965)

UNITED STATES of America, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. Jacques M. SCHIFFER, Defendant-Appellant.

United States Court of Appeals Sixth Circuit.

September 9, 1965.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Harvey M. Silets, Chicago, Ill., for appellant; Charles R. Purcell, Jr., Chicago, Ill., of counsel.

Theodore George Gilinsky, Department of Justice, Washington, D. C., Herbert J. Miller, Jr., Asst. Atty. Gen., Robert S. Erdahl, Attorney, Dept. of Justice, Washington, D. C., John H. Reddy, U. S. Atty., Chattanooga, Tenn., on brief, for appellee.

Before WEICK, Chief Judge, and MILLER and EDWARDS, Circuit Judges.


WEICK, Chief Judge.

This is an appeal from an order of the District Court adjudging Appellant Schiffer guilty of criminal contempt and imposing upon him a sentence of sixty days' confinement and a fine of $1,000. The sentence was later corrected by striking therefrom the fine.

Schiffer was Thomas Ewing Parks' attorney in the case of United States v. Hoffa, in which the defendants were tried and convicted for jury tampering. These convictions were affirmed...

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